The biggest villain in the history of eunuchs, why did Zhao Gao become the terminator of the Qin Dynasty?

historian Zhao Yi once recorded such a story in his writings: After

Zhao was tragically broken by Qin, a named "Orphan of Zhao", tolerated the humiliation, carried the enmity of the country and the country, and said he would advance. Qin Palace finally subverted Qin from the inside and achieved perfect revenge for Zhao! From this, he wrote a poem:

, when the whole world wanted to punish Qin, which counts as fame and murder.

first went to Fusu and then Hu Hai, Zhao Gaogong crowned the Han officials.

The big Jia Mieying wins with a woman, and plots to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty in vain.

staying in Hou Zhui Tie Jingqing dagger, not as high as the Qin Palace.

evil, Zhao Gao! Great, Zhao Gao!

It is generally believed that the multiple internal court chaos caused by Zhao Gao was one of the reasons for the accelerated demise of the Qin Dynasty. For example, Liang Qichao commented on him: “Z1z

” followed by eloquent words, flattering people, stealing the country’s handle, and poisoning the people. Such as Zhao Gao of the Qin Dynasty, the Ten Standing Servants of the Han Dynasty, Lu Qi of the Tang Dynasty, Li Linfu, Cai Jing of the Song Dynasty, Qin Hui, Han Jingxuan, Liu Jin of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian, wearing 窬斗筲, incomparable numbers. "

However, history There is still controversy over Zhao Gao’s motives for creating the chaos in the Qin court—for example, what I wrote at the beginning is a speculation. It comes from the Qing Dynasty historian Zhao Yi’s "Cong Yu", and he also pointed out the source of this paragraph "Historical Records Suo Yin" by Yu Sima Zhen.

Zhao Gao’s identity is also confusing. Some scholars have inferred that Zhao Gao is not a castrate through unearthed documents, and believe that there is no early document that records the fact that he is a castrate. However, the historians have a unified understanding of this, and there are indeed more reliable documents handed down to prove that Zhao Gao is an eunuch, and there is more than one.

But he was such a famous treacherous official in Chinese history. After Qin Shihuang died, he helped Hu Hai ascend to the second generation of emperor. At the same time, he let Hu Hai kill all his brothers and sisters, and let him kill the prime minister Li Si. , Hu Hai began to implement tyranny, which made the lives of the people of Qin extremely hot, and Zhao Gao wanted to kill Hu Hai himself and become the emperor, and finally the three clans were destroyed by Prince Ying. But what makes people feel strange is that the eunuch could not participate in the affairs of the court, why did he become the lonely minister of Qin Shihuang?

Zhao Gao's birth was similar to that of Qin Shihuang, who was not seen by his father, was exiled to Qin, and was a hostage. According to

history books, the Zhao Gao brothers were born in the Forbidden City, and people said that Zhao Gao was an eunuch based on this, saying that Zhao Gao’s father had committed a crime and was castrated, and then at this time his mother's heart Hui Yi Leng and another surnamed Zhao left their brothers, but then Zhao Gao took his father's old path and was castrated. The hermitage actually refers to the place where the eunuchs were trained after surgery. At that time, the technology was not developed. After the surgery, the eunuchs had to cultivate in an airtight place before going to work during the day.

Zhao Gao has tasted the cold world since he was a child. This is true. After Shang Yang’s reform, Qin State respected the law. That idea is very popular among people who study the law. So Zhao Gao started to learn the law in order to get ahead and avenge those who bullied him. Many people don't know that Zhao Gao also wrote a book about the law, called "Lian Li". And his efforts were quickly valued by Qin Shihuang, and he was promoted to the official position of CRRC. The position of

is Qin Shihuang's driver and bodyguard. It is a personal figure with the same weight as Li Si, which shows that he was reused by Qin Shihuang. At that time, Qin Shihuang was not interested in his legal rigor, but his strength and strength. Yingzheng valued two people most in terms of strength at the time. One was Meng Tian and the other was Zhao Gao. One of the two was Fusu’s teacher. , And the other is Hu Hai’s teacher. It can be seen that Zhao Gao may not be an eunuch, and he was also valued by King Qin.

In Yingzheng, Zhao Gao used Hu Hai's desire for power to kill Meng Tian and Li Si.

Qin II came to the throne and Zhao Gao became prime minister, doing whatever he wanted in the court, conspiring to usurp the throne. Zhao Gao was afraid that everyone would dissatisfy, so he decided to disarm him first.

One day when he went to court, Zhao Gao ordered someone to take a deer to the court and said to Hu Hai: "The minister got a good horse yesterday, and he came here to dedicate it to the emperor."

Hu Hai smiled and said: "The prime minister is wrong. Now, this is a deer with horns on its head. How do you say it is a horse?"

Zhao Gao replied: "This is indeed a good horse. If you don’t believe it, you might as well ask the ministers and see what they say. "Z1z

quickly replied to Zhao Gao's flattering minister: "The prime minister did notWrongly, this is obviously a good horse. "The minister who insisted on the truth said: "This is obviously a deer, how can it be called a horse." "Z1z

Zhao Gao found the bottom. After the dispersal of the dynasty, all the ministers who said deer were forced out of the court with various charges, and some even went to jail to behead their heads, but the ministers who said they were horses were all added to the ranks. From then on, the court officials were afraid of Zhao Gao and no longer dared to tell the truth.

In the end, Zhao Gao killed Hu Hai, but Liu Bang immediately attacked Xianyang, and Xiang Yu defeated Zhang Han. Zhao Gao’s emperor’s dream was broken. Even if Ziying didn't kill him, Liu Bang Xiang Yu would not let him go.